13 March 2017
West Ham are keen to offer and agree a new deal with Winston Reid as his current contract contains a buy-out fee clause thought to be in the region of £15 million. National press reports suggested that the arrival of Jose Fonte had precipitated the move as his wages eclipsed the long serving New Zealander […]
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13 March 2017
The 2017 Cheltenham Festival gets going on Tuesday and West Ham's stars - including Mark Noble and James Collins - got the ball rolling by doing some horsing around of their own.
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13 March 2017
Last week MirrorFootball were reporting that West Ham are expecting to receive a number of mega-money bids from China for Andy Carroll this summer. Carroll, who is valued at just £8.5m by Transfermarkt.com, was reportedly the subject of a number of bids in the region of £32m last month as Chinese Super League clubs scrambled […]
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13 March 2017
Sixty per cent of West Ham’s 52,000 season ticket holders plan to renew their season tickets at the London Stadium following the announcement of the renew process today with a renewal deadline of 31st May. A snap social media poll of four hundred season ticket holders has revealed this afternoon that forty per cent of […]
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13 March 2017
MailOnline has teamed up with Carling, the Official Beer and Cider of the Premier League, to give you the chance to win four tickets to watch West Ham v Leicester on Saturday, March 18.
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13 March 2017
West Ham looked to have secured a point away at Bournemouth following Andre Ayew’s goal seven minutes from time. Bournemouth however came back again and scored in the final minute to hand the Hammers their second defeat in a row. After a turn in form in January the side now have not won for the last four games but remain comfortable in mid table. Bournemouth however took a large step closer to Premier League survival with...
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13 March 2017
West Ham United manager Slaven Bilic watched the Hammers slump to defeat at Bournemouth and delivered a stark warning for his underachieving stars: You must improve. And Bilic’s charges, who ran out 3-2 losers at the Vitality Stadium, have the opportunity to do exactly that when the Hammers take on Leicester City at the London Stadium in their next top flight game on Saturday. Bilic, speaking to the club website, said he expected...
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13 March 2017
Michael Owen appears to be questioning Bilic’s choice of Kouyate in his role as right back after he called the midfielder lazy and lacking discipline for the role. On BT Sports LIVE TV Owen said:“Kouyate has been playing right back hasn’t he, he was poor for West Ham to give a penalty away. I don’t […]
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13 March 2017
Now it’s not like ClaretandHugh to normally ask such a question but we have to wonder whether the manager has been reading these pages overnight! 🙂 For yesterday in this story http://www.claretandhugh.info/time-to-give-this-iron-real-game-time/ we pleaded the case for record signing Andre Ayew of given a run of games. The £20 million record signing has been brought on […]
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13 March 2017
Emre Can's goal against Burnley gave Liverpool all three points on Sunday - and ensured they joined Tottenham as the Premier League's comeback kings with 14 points after falling behind this season.
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13 March 2017
Premier League Daily guest Alan Smith has given his verdict on the weekend performances in the Premier League and FA Cup.
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13 March 2017
Manchester United strike duo Rooney and Rashford will both miss the FA Cup quarter-final against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, while Spurs forward Kane hobbled off injured against Millwall.
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13 March 2017
Stating the name Mark Noble to a fellow West Ham 3 years ago would usually be greeted with a smile and two crossed arms to symbolise what the man behind the name meant to us. Now, however, if you uttered the same name, you can expect to be frowned at and told that he is “past it”. Being a young Hammers fan growing into the game of football, Mark couldn’t have found himself in...
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13 March 2017
Should Celtic have been awarded a last-minute penalty against Rangers? Were Real Madrid lucky against Real Betis? Was Kevin Mirallas offside for Everton?
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13 March 2017
The weekend’s defeat at Bournemouth once again exposed the very real problem of Bilic using players in positions that they are neither used to playing or indeed capable of doing so. Kouyate at right back is the most obvious of these. Without doubt one of the best players at the Club, Kouyate is a box to box midfield player, not afraid to take on his man, he provides a real thrust and ...
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13 March 2017
The Hammers have an existing 52,000 season-ticket holders at the London Stadium, and a waiting list of 55,000. The cheapest adult season ticket was £289 for the 2016-17 term.
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13 March 2017
BT Sport picked up on West Ham fans on social media unhappy with Bilic’s tactics on Saturday and the Sports channel screened their comments live on TV. West Ham Central “Slaven Bilic FC. Play players out of position, concede numerous goals, repeat. Tactical dinosaur.” West Ham Fan Zone “I am not saying he should be […]
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13 March 2017
West Ham have finally launched their ticket forwarding scheme which was originally promised at the beginning of the season. The functionality allows season ticket holders to legally electronically forward their seat onto friends or family without handing over their season ticket access card. The friend or family member need to registered on West Ham’s ticketing […]
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13 March 2017
West Ham have announced a price freeze on season tickets for their second campaign at London Stadium.
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13 March 2017
West Ham have published an official London Stadium seating for the first time to show seating banding categories. The publication coincides with the announcement of season ticket renewals with a deadline of 31st May. Season ticket holders will be able to relocate their seat subject to availability elsewhere. A new website for season ticket renewals […]
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13 March 2017
Originally posted here: West Ham London Stadium Match Day Rituals
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13 March 2017
Arsène Wenger overcomes resistance to change, Aitor Karanka wants fighters more than Stewart Downing, and José Mourinho has more pressing concerns than getting revenge at Chelsea One of the many criticisms routinely directed at Arsène Wenger concerns his tactical conservatism and it is fair to say that he has seldom deviated from his preferred and predictable 4-2-3-1 in recent years. But on the back of a crucial drop in form Wenger has actually started the last two games with a new plan, playing...
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13 March 2017
West Ham have officially announced that they will be freezing season ticket prices for those renewing for the 2017/2018 campaign. Season ticket holders have been given a deadline of 31st May to renew with club claiming the season ticket waiting list has now grown to an incredible 55,000. The club will also give every season […]
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13 March 2017
Robert Snodgrass has revealed he played through the pain barrier only to suffer bitter defeat anyway against Bournemouth. He received 10 stitches after suffering a knee injury against Chelsea and then fell awkwardly after coming on against the Cherries. He said: “I twisted my ankle and stretched my ligaments but we only had defenders and […]
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13 March 2017
West Ham have reportedly triggered an option to keep Adrian at the club. With the 30 year old’s deal due to run out at the close of the campaign the club and Slaven Bilic are keen for him to remain at the London Stadium. The Spaniard hasn’t been involved in any first team action since […]
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